I know witches in real life, my friend is a witch. He isn't evil, though. I asked him abt it because I was curious so he told me what he does. He believes in the threefold law, which is a law that most modern witches follow. It says that any harm you do will be returned to you three times worse. So, not evil. He also believes in the wiccan rede, which is "if ye harm none, do as ye will". It basically means that you are completely free to do whatever you want in your life, provided you don't hurt anyone by doing it. For the actual spells and magic bit, he believes in the power of energy to influence things and spirits. he uses sage to cleanse his room of bad energy with the smoke. He has an altar that he puts crystals and plants and things with sigils drawn on them that he mediates in front of to clear bad energy from his head and his life. Sigils are symbols that you give power to by writing them on paper and burning them. Hes a super hippie and superstitious person, he believes in fairies and shit. He does rituals w the cycles of the moon and seasons.This all makes him sound totally weird and crazy, buts hes actually a very levelheaded and intelligent guy who I love talking to. He says that rituals help him balance out his life and stay calm and rational and connected with natute in the face of the stresses of modern living. So maybe there's something positive to be said for witches.

I find you're friend interesting As I like to think that all the mysticismAre "just" the same measurementsSorting the way we interpret reality as a whole but does not change the fact of its "true" Physical property'sFor one example is that I have a gun I know its a gun but I can measure it Whilst philosophy take controlBut a gun is still a gun in this worldAnd I doubt it's a toy from some other dimension :-).

There are many witches in my neighborhood, like some girl pouring graveyard dirt in someone else’s yard. (She was caught on camera) or a dead decaying cat in front of a weird sign and litter box saying something like ‘free spells’. Also whenever my mom was younger, her neighbor had a hard time sleeping because of all the whisperings from outside and one day they woke up and went outside. There were several odd signs and carvings in the dirt.